There was once a genius who made a fundamental building block which ensured fabulous riches for the electronics industry for sixty years.
The genius wanted to get some of those riches for himself, so he set up a company and recruited the best young chemists, physicists and materials scientists in
But the company never got a commercial product to market as the genius pursued the development of devices like a four layer diode which were laboratory curiosities but not commercial products.
Disenchanted with the genius, his best young scientists left him and set up their own company and became very successful and rich.
MORAL Genius is not synonymous with success.
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Comments (3)
There were two problems with the genius
1) He didn't make the fundamental building block. Two other guys, who may or not have reported to him, built it.
2) He had enormous problems with interpersonal relationships.
Moral: Genius can be very difficult to live with
Posted by Dick Selwood | November 28, 2008 9:43 AM
Posted on November 28, 2008 09:43
That's a wee bit picky, Dick. The 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics for the invention of the transistor had him om the ticket and he did, singlehandedly. invent the junction transistor which became more widely adopted than the point contact transistor.
Posted by David Manners
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November 28, 2008 11:09 AM
Posted on November 28, 2008 11:09
... then the Genious trapped himself in his mind trying to figure out on which part of the process he did wrong. Then fortunately, he discovered his weakness, and with the latest ten layer diode on his hands, he came back to the market with 6 months ahead in terms of innovation, taking a lot of the share from his previous employees. Now with a good level of interpersonal relationship, played as innocent again and made them ask him to sell his company, which he did right after he finished his latest high integrated 50 layer diode chip stuff.
Posted by F3L1P40 | December 2, 2008 4:02 PM
Posted on December 2, 2008 16:02